How To Download Facebook Videos To Your Computer

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• 1. How to download videos from Facebook using ByClickDownloader.com
• 2. How to download videos from Facebook using FBdown.net
• 3. How to Download Facebook videos straight to your laptop without using any app or service
• Still confused?
• Why would you need to download a video from Facebook?
• Updated for May 2026

1. How to download videos from Facebook using ByClickDownloader.com

A good option to download videos from Facebook is via ByClick Downloader that helps you backup your videos from other platforms. ByClick downloader also lets you download private videos from Facebook. You can easily install it here. Here the steps to follow to download videos:

• Open ByClick Downloader
• Enter with your web browser to the private Facebook video you wish to download.
• Click on the small pop-up message that appears in the right-bottom corner of the screen.

• If the video is private – ByClick Downloader will ask for your Facebook credentials. Enter your Facebook credentials and click Download.

All downloads made in ByClickDownloader are stored in ‘My folder’ by default (c:\users\user name\Music). On the video download line, you can see where the video is being downloaded.

2. How to download videos from Facebook using FBdown.net

1. Go to the post with the video you want to download

2. Right click on the video and select “Copy video URL at current time” 

   

3. Go to FbDown.net

4. Paste your link there and select the quality of download you need

   

5. Finally, right click on that video and hit **“Save video as”

   

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6. Name your video something exciting, funny (or dumb), and hit enter.

The Google Chrome instructions are very similar to the ones for Edge, Internet Explorer (you still using that?!), Opera and Firefox.

If you’re having issues using FBDown, you can also try the Facebook video downloader, which supports the download of both public and private video with just your web-browser.

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3. How to Download Facebook videos straight to your laptop without using any app or service

(Note the following instructions are for Chrome but are very similar for other browsers)

Here’s how to save those FB videos to your laptop or PC:

1. Go to the post with the video you want to download

2. Right click on the video and select “Copy video URL at current time” 

   

3. Paste the url into your browser address bar, it should look something like this: https://www.facebook.com/…/videos/12345…9/

4. Change the “www.” to “m.” i.e. https://m.facebook.com/…/videos/12345…9/

5. Hit enter

6. Play the video

7. Now you will need to open up the Developer Console (Alt Option + Cmd + J)

8. Inspect the video element using the icon at the top left of the developer console (you can also toggle it by pressing Shift + Cmd + C

   

9. Click on the video and you’ll see the a box on the developer console. Copy the video url and paste it in another tab. Hit enter.

10. Finally, right click on that video and hit **“Save video as”

    

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11. Name your video something exciting, sexy (or dumb), and hit enter.

Still confused?

Here’s a video that walks you through all the steps. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSY5TU-rHA8

Why would you need to download a video from Facebook?

1. Perhaps you lost access to the original file and want to publish that video on a different platform (like Youtube or Vimeo)
2. You made a FB livestream and want to download the video
3. and more!

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Updated for May 2026

A few things have shifted since this post first went up. Meta dropped the legacy “Page” verification track in 2024 and folded it into Meta Verified ($14.99–$19.99/mo depending on tier and country) — the blue check is now a subscription, not a one-time review. Friend-request flows still work as described, though Meta moved the bulk-cancel UI deeper into mobile settings; the desktop m.facebook.com/friends/center/requests/outgoing route still works (2026-04 spot check).

Worth knowing in 2026: ~3.07B Facebook MAU (Meta Q4 2025 earnings), but the share of time-on-platform relative to Reels and WhatsApp has continued sliding. If this post is part of an outreach strategy, weight WhatsApp and Threads (yes — Threads survived the 2024 pivot speculation and crossed 200M MAU) accordingly.